Justice in a true democracy can be long tedious road
Jay,
We are all looking for Justice
Of the accused 2 are from Continental 2 are from aerospatiale and 1 from the French civil directorate
Where are the executives from AF , where are the engineers , where are those responsible for the overloading of the aircraft ,I don’t see their names in the docket and why are their names missing.
One continental engineer who fitted the strip which Concorde hit has been charged ,but the engineer who failed to fit the wheel spacer isn’t
The head of Engineering at Continental has been charged ,but the head of AF engineering hasn’t WHY?
It was a AF .aircraft ,flown By AF crew ,Serviced AF engineers ,loaded by AF Ground Crew, which crashed
Yet no one from AF has been charged WHY ?
Those who died deserve Justice , not a cover up ,those relatives need Justice not a cover-up
Hi Kevin
I agree with most of what you are saying above and have some insight into the frustration all of us are facing that have commented on this thread. We all subscribe to better safety, improved efficiency and a developing airline industry with as much openess as is commercially viable.
And most importantly we all sadly miss Concorde.
I repeat what I say that the imminent French lawyer that Continental Airlines have representing them holds the keys to unlock this entire investigation. If he does not get his clients off the hook I hope he steers this case out of the Palais du Justice to a higher European court.
If the lawyer for Continental doesn’t go to a higher European court then lawyers representing the bereaved Germans and other passengers can if their clients instruct them to do so, take this to a higher European court.
Do you think that lawyers for the passengers, haven’t thought of the very poignant questions you pose, on why certain parties aren’t being held responsible and/or charged?
The judicial process is sadly a very tedious one in any democratic country and once it goes pan European both costs and time extend to almost infinity.
It also delays psychological closure for many bereaved relatives and in their interests possibly some of their own lawyers may be advising them against pursuing this too vehemently. Without being crude about it some of them may have settled on forms of compensation and sought personal closure that way.(This may not be what you or I see as morally correct but humans are fallible)
I summarised this entirely by saying that a ‘true’ absolutely factual time line (to the nearest millisecond) is what is required, from if necessary the time the original Concorde had to be replaced by an older Concorde which needed maintenence before it was declared fit to fly and then up to the millisecond it crashed.
By doing it this way it can answer what came first fire or tyre burst following impact with metal. Into the timeline must go full CVR, FDR analyses, all eye witness accounts (firecrews, Flight crew and passengers of the AF jumbo carrying Jaque Chirac who saw Concorde ablaze and taking off) and especially those of ATC including their full transcripts of verbal interaction with AF4590.
Any professional physicist or applied mathematician can very quickly work out how far if any the thin metal strip would have moved when struck by the tyre albeit the tyre was moving at a very high velocity and acceleration.
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